Members of a community will have a history of experiences together and the belief that there will be more experiences together in the future.These experiences form a long lasting, emotion connection. That’s why a community that goes through a crises often comes out much stronger because they’ve now shared a difficult situation, forging a strong emotional bond amongst members.

Shared emotional connection

...has to work both ways, with members feeling like they have influence over the community and the community having influence over the members.A community should be a place where members feel like they have a say in what happens. And for a community to have influence over its members, it simply has to provide them with value that they don’t want to lose.

Influence in communities

Is belonging, either individually or collectively, to a group. Membership is the feeling of belonging or of sharing a sense of personal relatedness inside a community.

Membership

By joining a community a member gets what they hoped to get by joining.
This means that your community, like any other product, needs to solve a problem for its members in order to make it worth their time and contribution.

Integration and fulfillment of needs

<ul><li>Boundaries: How people become members and what are the boundaries keeping others out.</li><li>Emotional safety: By building boundaries, you create trust and a feeling of safety.</li><li>A sense of belonging: Members must feel like they fit in.</li><li>Personal investment: If members contribute to the community, it enhances their sense of community.</li><li>A common symbol system: Sharing a symbol creates a sense of community.</li></ul>

Attributes of membership in communities

1. Boundaries - How do people become members and what are the boundaries keeping others out 2. Emotional safety - By building boundaries and including the right people, you create trust and a feeling of safety 3. A sense of belonging and identification - Members must feel like they fit in and that this is "their community" 4.

Shared emotional connection

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